CATTLEYA MOSSLH REINECKIANA. 
[Puate 461.] 
Native of La Guayra, Venezuela. 
Epiphytal. Stem-like pseudobulbs, clavate, fleshy, and marked with depressed 
parallel lines, monophyllus, and clothed with large sheathing scales. Leaves oblong, 
obtuse, thick and leathery in texture, keeled beneath, and_ rich green in colour. 
Scape terminal, bearing usually two or three flowers which are some seven or 
eight inches across; sepals lanceolate, recurved .at the apex, pure white; 
petals ovate, much broader than the sepals, but of the same pure white, lobed 
and undulate at the margins; lip three-lobed, the side lobes enclosing the column, 
the front expanded portion deeply bi-lobed and _ beautifully crisped at the edge, 
pure white, with a blotch of lilac-mauve; throat bright yellow, with radiating 
veins of deep rich purple, the outer border white. 
CatttEYA Mossta Reteckrana, Reichenbach fil. Bonplandia, iv., p. 327. 
Reichenbachia, 2nd series, vol. ii., t. 52. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6th 
edition, p. 196, 
It is with very great pleasure we now place a portrait of this fine and 
distinct variety of Cattleya Mossie before our readers. It is not a new 
form, for it has been known to us for twenty-five years. We first saw it 
blooming with Mr. Stevenson, when he had charge of the collection of plants 
formed by Julius Sichel, Esq., at Timperley, near Manchester, and the variety is 
still held in high estimation in that locality, for last season we received a flower 
from Mr. Hardy, of Pickering Lodge, Timperley, which was one of fourteen upon 
the same plant. This must have been a charming sight even amongst Mr. Hardy’s 
grand collection of Cattleyas, which is certainly one of the very best in Europe. 
This variety, although much admired, does not appear to have become widely 
disseminated, for to this day it is very restricted in its distribution, and as it is 
only imported at rare intervals, the variety must be scarce in the native home of 
the species. The plant here figured was grown by Mr. Cummings in the garden 
of A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Carshalton, where there is a fine collection of 
varieties of the Jabiata section of the genus, and where, in the season, each 
variety makes a splendid show. 
The variety Reineckiana does not differ from the typical plant in _ its 
habit or manner of growth, but resembles an ordinary plant of the species ; 
the flowers are very charming, large, and of good substance, the sepals and petals 
being pure white; the lip is also white, stained on the inner side with a blotch 
of lilac-mauve, and having a broad border of white in front, where it is beautifully 
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